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Beaker

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For those PM'ing me.

There are 12 people to start with, split ( in theory) between the top and bottom (ignore the fact a bit that goes over the top, it's just a distraction.

When the animation splits the 12 each split in half (at various points). When they are reassembled there appears to be 13. However you are not seeing 13 people but actually 11 “full” people and 2 “half” people. But, because the 2 half people (the guy on the far left has the very top of his head missing) and the guy at the top of the second row – 6th in from the left (missing the very bottom of his shoes) both look complete, you assume there are 13.

The fact that every else lines up is just clever drawing.
 

Stan

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Originally posted by Beaker
For those PM'ing me.

There are 12 people to start with, split ( in theory) between the top and bottom (ignore the fact a bit that goes over the top, it's just a distraction.

When the animation splits the 12 each split in half (at various points). When they are reassembled there appears to be 13. However you are not seeing 13 people but actually 11 “full” people and 2 “half” people. But, because the 2 half people (the guy on the far left has the very top of his head missing) and the guy at the top of the second row – 6th in from the left (missing the very bottom of his shoes) both look complete, you assume there are 13.

The fact that every else lines up is just clever drawing.
Sorry Beaker - I don't buy that. There are 12 pairs of feet and 12 heads and 12 bodies, then they split and there are 13 heads and 13 pairs of feet and 13 bodies. I don't see how your explanation goes far enough. Which is the "extra" person and who's body parts is he made out of?
 

Beaker

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Originally posted by Stan
Sorry Beaker - I don't buy that. There are 12 pairs of feet and 12 heads and 12 bodies, then they split and there are 13 heads and 13 pairs of feet and 13 bodies. I don't see how your explanation goes far enough. Which is the "extra" person and who's body parts is he made out of?
He isn't made out of anyone :).

Look at it this way, if you watched it go round 12 times, picking each of the “heads” to watch, you would see that each of the men split, then rejoin with another, separate, bottom half somewhere else in the picture. You would also see that the 2 guys that I mention, split off (one looses his hair, the other his soles), but do not rejoin with any other parts, hence my description of only being a “half” person. The trick is in the fact that each of them looks enough of a person that you believe there is 13